Kata Geibl - The Escape, 2026

From the series Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue
Digital Generative Collage
Inkjet print on Hahnemühle Pearl paper
40 x 40 cm
Edition of 6 + 2AP
Signed and numbered on a separate label

About the work
Drawing on memories, recurring dreams, and personal relationships, Kata Geibl creates a series of images combining analogue photography, sketches, and artificial intelligence to explore how unconscious thoughts shape our lives. In the project introspection becomes a dialogue between imagination, personal narrative, and new technologies. By embracing the tension between control and surrender — between artistic intention and algorithmic unpredictability — the project offers a subtle reflection on how we dream, construct meaning, and communicate through images in the age of AI.

"When I was 12 years old, my mother’s frustration with me for not talking that much got to the point of yelling. “Why don’t you speak, like any other normal person?” she raised her voice at me. I promptly answered, “Instead of speaking, I have images in my head.” With this new body of work, my mother will see those images that I was talking about.”

Poetic, analytical, and visually compelling, this deeply personal work also evokes the artist’s relationship with her mother and her childhood. It will premiere at the Biennale Images Vevey in September 2026.

About the photographer
Kata Geibl (1989, HU) is a photographer living and working in Budapest. Her work is mainly focused on global issues, capitalism, the Anthropocene, and the ambiguities of the photographic medium.
Coming from a background in Liberal Arts has informed the way she creates her projects. Drawing concepts from Philosophy and Cultural Studies, Geibl steps in with metaphorical images to fill in the gaps where words fall short.

Geibl’s long-standing interest in photography’s ambiguity - how we are trained to treat photographs as evidence while also approaching them with intense suspicion – is palpable throughout her practice. Harnessing this tension, she presents us with the implications of a very real phenomenon without adhering to straight documentary methods that habitually signal truth. Instead, she mixes genres to produce her visual universe - a commentary on our relationship to photography as much as the implications of capitalism.

Her first long-term project entitled Sisyphus premiered at Unseen Amsterdam which was followed by her first solo show in Budapest. She received Paris Photo Carte Blanche Award for the series and in the same year, she was nominated for Palm* Photo Prize. In 2019, she received the József Pécsi Photography Scholarship and was a talent for Futures Platform nominated by Capa Center Budapest. In 2020 she is a Grand Prix Finalist at Fotofestiwal Lodz, won the PHmuseum Vogue Italia Prize and is shortlisted for Palm Photo Prize.

About buying this work
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